TORONTO \u2014 The playoff picture may become a bit more clear in Week 18.<\/p>\n
The Montreal Alouettes are eyeing securing a playoff spot and a home playoff date. The BC Lions have a chance to clinch a playoff spot and the Riders could lock in a home playoff game.<\/p>\n
Plus, there is a potential that a West Division crossover will be confirmed.<\/p>\n
Here are the playoff scenarios in play in Week 18:<\/p>\n
EAST DIVISION<\/p>\n
OTT LOSS = MTL clinches post-season berth and a home playoff date
\nOTT LOSS and TOR LOSS = West Division crossover confirmed<\/p>\n
WEST DIVISION<\/p>\n
SSK WIN and BC LOSS = SSK clinches home playoff date
\nBC WIN = BC clinches post-season berth<\/p>\n
\u00a0PLAYOFF PICTURE<\/p>\n
In Week 15, Saskatchewan booked its ticket to the Grey Cup Playoffs for a second straight season.
\nIn Week 16, Hamilton secured a post-season berth and a home playoff date.<\/p>\n
CROSSOVER RULE<\/p>\n
If the fourth-place team in Division A \u2013 A4 \u2013 has more points than the third-place team in Division B \u2013 B3 (they cannot be tied), A4 will cross over and take the place of B3 in terms of playoff seeding. A4 will then compete against B2 in the Division B Semi-Final.<\/p>\n
WEEK 18 SCHEDULE<\/p>\n
Fri., Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. ET | SSK at OTT
\nSat., Oct. 4 at 3:00 p.m. ET | HAM at TOR
\nSat., Oct. 4 at 7:00 p.m. ET | CGY at BC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 The playoff picture may become a bit more clear in Week 18. The Montreal Alouettes are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-185728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}